Big structures, large processes, huge comparisons
By: Charles Tilly.
Series: Russell Sage Foundation 75th anniversary series
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Social change -- Research; Social history -- Research
First sentence: Who do other people’s books behave like docile marionettes? Mine keep playing Pinocchio.
Description: Tilly argues for a shift in social sciences from individual to social relationships. Societies are not autonomous systems, and social inquiry should concentrate on relationships and activities.  Inquiry into how societies form and change may may be local or transnational, and it may involve other relationships and activities.  How such inquiry should be carried out is unclear, although there are several possible examples available.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-167) and index.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Intellectual Equipment; title: Worrying About Social Change
pagenum: 1; title: Thinkers Face Change
pagenum: 6; title: What Was Happening?
pagenum: 7; title: Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons
pagenum: 10; title: What to Do
pagenum: 13; label: 2
title: Four Pernicious Postulates; title: False Principles
pagenum: 17; title: Society Is a Thing Apart
pagenum: 20; title: Mental Events Cause Social Behavior
pagenum: 26; title: "Social Change" Is a Coherent Phenomenon
pagenum: 33; title: Stage Theories
pagenum: 41; label: 3
title: Four More Pernicious Postulates; title: Differentiation Is a Progressive Master Process
pagenum: 43; title: Differentiation Versus Integration
pagenum: 50; title: Change, Strain, Disorder
pagenum: 53; title: Illegitimate Versus Legitimate Force
pagenum: 56; label: 4
title: Comparing; title: Eradicating Pernicious Postulates
pagenum: 60; title: Will Total History Save Us?
pagenum: 65; title: The Case for Huge (But Not Stupendous) Comparisons
pagenum: 74; title: No Safety in Numbers
pagenum: 76; title: Ways of Seeing
pagenum: 80; title: Looking at Comparisons
pagenum: 84; label: 5
title: Individualizing Comparisons; title: The Will to Individualize
pagenum: 87; title: Kings or People?
pagenum: 91; title: Cracks in the Foundation
pagenum: 94; label: 6
title: Universalizing Comparisons; title: The Decline of Natural History
pagenum: 97; title: Models of Revolution
pagenum: 102; title: Theda Skocpol's Revolutions
pagenum: 105; label: 7
title: Finding Variation; title: How and When to Look for Variation
pagenum: 116; title: Barrington Moor Compares
pagenum: 119; label: 8
title: Encompassing Comparisions; title: Encompassing the World
pagenum: 125; title: Stein Rokkan Encompasses
pagenum: 129; title: Rokkan's "Conceptual Maps of Europe"
pagenum: 131; title: What's Wrong?  What Should We Do About It?
pagenum: 139; label: 9
title: Conclusions; title: The Tasks at Hand
pagenum: 144; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 148; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 169; title: Index
pagenum: 171